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Law of Persons | Personereg
The legal duty of the paternal grandparents of an extramarital child to
support the child ? Peterson v Maintenance Officer 2004 (2) BCLR 205
(C)
Under South African common law it is the legal duty of both parents (or their
estates) to support their extramarital child, provided that they are in a financial
position to do so and the child is financially unable to support himself/herself. An
extramarital child is also legally obliged to support his/her mother and her
relations, subject to the same requirements that they should be unable to support
themselves financially and that the child should be financially able to ..